Meaning

Occupying a middle position; middle..

Definitions by Sense

1. Occupying a middle position; middle.
2. (linguistics) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ].
3. (originally African-American Vernacular and Internet slang) Mediocre; of middling quality.
4. (Internet slang, by extension) Trashy; low-quality.
5. (location, online gaming, slang) The middle of the battlefield.
6. (location, online gaming, slang) To or into the middle of the battlefield.
7. (archaic) Amid.
8. (archaic) Middle.

Example Sentences

Passing through the silent village, he heard the clock tell the mid hour of night.

Though teams from China have hoisted the Summoner’s Cup, which goes to the Worlds champion, it’s always been South Korean mid laners who have starred on those teams. Erzberger said Knight wants to be the first Chinese mid laner to hoist that trophy — and maybe become a national treasure himself.

The song is one of his best, but its real power comes from the accompanying, highly-stylized video wherein Lil Nas X breaks out of a prison populated with Black gay men (and, for an unspecified reason, Jack Harlow in an unseemly role as the Straight White Savior who delivers a verse that is mid at best and inappropriate at worst).

I’ve watched all of these shows. They’re not bad. They’re simply … mid. Which is what makes them, frustratingly, as emblematic of the current moment in TV as their stars’ previous shows were of the ambitions of the past.

In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback? [title]

...it just seems devoid of passion; it's just so generic, so mid, and in some aspects just bad that it seems like it's a game that just exists to exist... (02:20)

We need to retake mid.

Everyone head mid.

Word Forms

• midmost
• mids
• myd

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Use mid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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